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Dance the night away

I don’t believe in balance. It’s a fallacy. A pretty yet damaging ideal. To subscribe to balance would be to iron out the vital, invigorating flux and flow between transcending the everyday and living in the moment. We need both.

I mention this because I went to see Blondes last week (listen on Dummy). And then I went again on Tuesday. They had a big affect on me because they made me think of – no, feel – a time when transcendence was ingrained into our daily lives. When achieving transcendence through music – and movement to music – held an essential role in connecting, commemorating and celebrating stages in our ever-turning lifecycle. And yes, you could argue that music still holds a transcending role at important life events yet the reverence with which we regard it is greatly diminished.

Modern society at best marginalises and at worst outcasts and outlaws transcendence. Callings, careers, vocations and past-times that focus on feeling over function are discouraged and invalidated. In our limiting capitalist society, freedom is defined through accumulation yet true transcendence don’t cost a thing. Just dance. Mind and body as one. That’s what Blondes made me feel. Dancing to their music felt like giving thanks. It wasn’t just a Tuesday night anymore, it was a celebration of life. Transcendence of the everyday and living in the moment as one.

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I don’t often speak as a Libra, but the way us children of mid Fall are able to relate to our astrological allocation is by referring to the old maxim what goes op must… d-d-drop. This can be applied to those modern mystical humours serotonin, dopamine, oestrogen, testosterone and adrenaline, and as the feelings they govern ebb and flow and the mind dances in starts and fits of language on the edges of sense and chaos we let balance tip and slip back and forth and yes this is how we love to live!